[Orion's Drama News] Man-Holing It Up2017/07/22,
Dramaland is back to firing on all cylinders as new dramas are being announced and upcoming ones ramp up their promotional efforts. This week I take a little look at the surprisingly funny "Live Up to Your Name", I share my Ori-feels over "Mystery Queen 2" and also a few thoughts on my upcoming dramas. Here be manholes and hopes for a fun second half of my summer,...More

[HanCinema's Film Review] "The Age of Shadows"2016/09/10,
The time is 1923. Jeong-chool (played by Song Kang-ho) is a Korean man turned Japanese crimefighter. Unlucky for him, the main criminals the Japanese are chasing happen to be nationalist Korean terrorists, led by Woo-jin (played by Gong Yoo). Oddly enough Gye-soon (played by Han Ji-min) is the more identifiable leader, less because she's important and more because as the token woman Gye-soon stands out more obviously. Ditto the foreign guy, who has few lines and even less apparent motivation but who's noticeable because everyone has to talk to him in English,...More

[HanCinema's Box Office Review] 2015.05.22 ~ 2015.05.242015/05/25, "Mad Max" retains pole position...
The fourth film in the "Mad Max" series continued its reign atop the Korean box office, claiming additional 310K (31%) across 714 screens to move its total tally now to 1.8M ($15M). "Mad Max: Fury Road" has been peppered with praise from critics and filmgoers worldwide, and is quickly closing in on the estimated $150M it took to produce. Last weekend "Mad Max" (along with Spy) entered and dislodged Marvel's "Avengers" as the country's favourite flick; week two for George Miller's dusty dystopia saw that success continue as fans flocked to theatres to catch Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron in action,...More

[HanCinema's Box Office Review] 2015.05.15 - 2015.05.172015/05/18,
"Chronicles of Evil" and "Mad Max" dislodges "The Avengers"...
While Cannes is playing host to the top stars and filmmakers from around the world, the South Korean public came out in droves over the weekend to catch two new features that recently made their way onto the chart. Baek Woon-hak's thriller "Chronicles of Evil" and George Miller's remake of "Mad Max" were the must-see films, and between them the capture over 70% of the box office pie; in the process removing "The Avengers" from its previous privileged position as South Korea's number one,...More

[HanCinema's Box Office Review] 2015.05.08 ~ 2015.05.102015/05/11,
Marvel's massively successful "Avengers: Age of Ultron" continued its reign at the top of the pile over this past weekend. The $280 billion film added an additional 804 admissions (52%) to its cause, bringing its total tally in South Korea now to 9.3 million admissions (or $73 million). Currently, "The Avengers: Age of Ultron" has grossed over $875 million worldwide,...More

[HanCinema's Box Office Review] 2015.05.01 ~ 2015.05.032015/05/04, Marvel's might continues while newcomers stake their claim… There was some serious jostling for position going on at the box office this past weekend. Last weekend Marvel's latest "Avengers" film entered the fray and (righteously) dominated proceedings by capturing a mammoth 90% of the box office pie. And while this left little else for the rest of the pack to pounce on, a week later we find a string of new entries trying to make a move on Marvel's monster,...More

Coin Locker Girl (2015)2015/05/01, Source, "Coin Locker Girl"
Genres: Crime and Drama
Running Time: 110 min.
Directed by: Han Jun-hee
Starring: Kim Hye-soo, Kim Go-eun-I, Eom Tae-goo, Go Kyung-pyo
Synopsis: A baby is thrown into a coin locker. She is picked up by a beggar, who names her Il-young. When she turns 10, she is sold off to a woman referred to simply as Mother. She is raised by remorseless loan sharks until she is 18 years old, by which time she has become Mother's trusted right hand. One day, Il-young is given a task: to stay close to Seok-hyeon, the son of a debtor. Over the course of a few days, she becomes friends with the boy and is exposed to a world she never knew existed. She envies the normalcy that other teenage girls enjoy and opens her heart to Seok-hyeon. But when his father flees, Mother orders her to kill him,...More

[HanCinema's Film News] New Korean Films Inbound...2015/02/28, K-Films Coming Soon: ★★★ "Dog Eat Dog": Two vigilantes get bitten back by a gang that targets Koreans abroad. (03/05) ★★★ "Barracks": A group of friends are lured into a private camp with a mad instructor who's out to get them. (03/05) ★★ "Granny's Got Talent": A foul-mouthed granny takes part in a national cussing contest. (03/05) ★★★★ "Empire of Lust": A Joseon commander has to mind a scorned prince as well as a conniving gisaeng during a volatile time in the Kingdom's founding. (03/05),...More

[HanCinema's Film Review] "Ingtoogi"2014/11/28,
In the first place, "Ingtoogi" is literally about fights between Internet trolls. Like actual fisticuffs. In the second place, there is surprisingly little actual fighting in the movie. There's one at the beginning, and a sort of tournament at the end, and in the middle it's just a lot of training. Barely even anything that could really be called a sparring match. And as for why these guys are all fighting the first place...well,...More

[HanCinema's Drama Review] "Drama Special - 18 Years"2014/05/11,
Seok-joo (played by Seo Young-joo) is a grumpy teenager. His life isn't awful, really, but there's not really any apparent optimism. The first we see of the young man he's in the same general vicinity as another kid being bullied. In a more romantic drama this scene would take on romantic undertones, as Seok-joo learns to stand up for what's right. Here, though, there's no such reassuring cathartic release.
Nearly every character in this drama is miserable on a basic level. Seok-joo, the bullies, the kid who is bullied. They're all stuck in this cycle of almost apathetic violence,...More

[HanCinema's Film News] New Korean Films Inbound...2013/11/09, K-Films Coming Soon:
★★★★★ "Friends 2": A young gangster unknowingly befriends his father's killer but starts to suspect the connection.(11/14)
★★★★ "Dead End": A shamed producer heads out to film ginseng diggers but gets more than he bargained for.(11/14)
★★★ "Ingtoogi": After getting humiliated online, Tae-goo learns to fight in order to get revenge in the real world. (11/14)
★★ "Black Gospel": Korea's only gospel choir heads to Harlem to see if they have what it takes. (11/14)
★★★★ "Red Vacance Black Wedding 2": An obsessed creep refuses to take a hint when his love interest turns him down. (11/14)
★★★★ "The Five": A woman goes to extreme measures to enact revenge against her family's killer. (11/14)
★★★ "Beautiful Child": A story about a Korean missionary who charges through the rupture of natives and white people. (11/14)
★★★ "Kid Cast Away 2013": A young girl gets stranded on a South Pacific Island with her dog, but the two are not alone for long. (11/14),...More

Director KIM Joong-hyeon2012/02/10, Source,
Ahead of its international premiere in the Berlinale Forum, director Kim Joong-hyeon talks about his debut feature film "Choked" with KIM Seong-hoon.
- Photograph by CHOI Sung-yeol
A low-budget film made at the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), Kim Joong-hyeon's "Choked" deals with economic troubles and the dissolution of the family in contemporary Korean society. The film made its world premiere in the Busan International Film Festival's New Currents competition and is due for an international premiere in the Berlinale Forum section,...More

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